BBC Opens Up Creative Archive With Some Content
BBC’s ambitious online archives project, the Creative Archive, has finally been populated with some content from BBC’s video archives, in a… Read more »
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BBC Confirms Local TV News Pilot Details
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BBC’s Seven-Day DVR
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BBC To Stream Current Affairs Programs Online, Live and On-Demand
By Rafat Ali
My wishes are being granted, slowly but surely: BBC has put its current affairs programs online, in full, live and on demand. This is a big… Read more »
BBC’s New Online Soap To Teach English
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The BBC World Service is launching its first online soap opera to help listeners learn English. The Flatmates, a drama about a group of mult… Read more »
BBC May Sell Programs Online
By Rafat Ali
Not exactly my dream, but still some way towards it: The BBC is to sell its programmes to overseas viewers over the Internet and may also ta… Read more »
BBC’s Annual Report: New Media Activities
By Rafat Ali
Bunch of interesting figures in BBC’s annual report, and the linked one is for new media. Spending on bbc.co.uk, excluding BBC Worldwide’s b… Read more »
BBCi Nets 1 Million-plus Beethoven Downloads, Angers Music Execs
By Rafat Ali
Classical music execs complained when BBCi announced plans for free downloads of all nine Beethoven symphonies during a short period of time… Read more »
BBC To Premiere Comedy Series Online; Accused of Land Grab
In UK, BBC Three is to stream the new series of comedy “The Mighty Boosh” from 19 July 2005, a week ahead of its TV transmission on 26 July.… Read more »
BBC's Creative Archive: The Moral Imperative
Ben Hammersley makes a strong argument to kickstart Creative Archive, the ambitious BBC project to put all TV shows/news as archives online.… Read more »
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BBC Raising External Online Work Commitment
The BBC is increasing the amount it spends on external new media commissions by 30 percent, to 8 m GBP, in a move that will inject much-need… Read more »
UK MPs Seek To Block BBC Free Downloads
In UK, the All Party Internet Group (APIG) may try to block the BBC from giving away its archived material to internet users..the MP group i… Read more »
Industry Moves: MTV Poaches BBC New Media Expert
Angel Gambino, the high-profile head of new platforms at BBC, is moving to MTV, in what sounds like a similar position. She publicly announc… Read more »
BBC's Threat To UK's Online Newspapers
Finally Economist comes out and does a story on BBC’s vast efforts online and how it effects online newspapers in UK. The BBC now has 525 si… Read more »
BBC Set To Release New Video Codec
The BBC is poised to release its open source internet video delivery system, called Dirac, to compete head on with proprietary favorites lik… Read more »
Beethoven Delivers More Than 600,000 Digital Downloads
By Rafat Ali
The BBC reports more than 600,000 downloads of the first five Beethoven symphonies in its unprecedented Beethoven Experience. BBC exec Simon… Read more »
BBC To Spend $338 Million On New Media Projects
So much for cutting BBC’s spending on new media projects: it will spend an extra Read more »
Industry Moves: Angel Gambino To Leave BBC New Media
Angel Gambino, the high-profile head of new platforms at BBC is leaving the corporation…Gambino, who is originally from U.S., did not disc… Read more »
The Beeb Shall Inherit the Earth
A glowing tribute to BBC’s digital efforts, all of which we document here…”America’s entertainment industry is committing slow, spectacula… Read more »
BBC iMP: Public Trial For 5,000 In September
As I noted here last week, BBC New Media is to extend trials of its interactive Media Player (iMP), allowing UK viewers to download material… Read more »
BBC Will Trial iMedia Player This Year
BBC’s online on-demand programming experiment, called IMP (interactive media player) will go into full consumer trial this year…Building o… Read more »
BBC Worldwide To Shift Focus From Web Ads To Content Syndication
BBC Worldwide, the money-making division of the Beeb, is trying to reduce its reliance on online ads as a revenue stream with a major push i… Read more »
Peter Kaufman’s Intelligent TV World
This follows from the post below….here’s a very interesting speech by documentary film producer Peter B. Kaufman at the Creative Archive’s… Read more »
Creative Archives Has Six Clips
OK, I know I’m hard on BBC sometimes, but this one was too good to miss: its Creative Archive project–which now includes others like Channe… Read more »
2005 Webby Winners
By Rafat Ali
Lots of glee and some dashed hopes as the Webby winners are announced. The BCC won four awards, including best news site; Guardian Unlimited… Read more »
BBC To Cut More Online Content
By Rafat Ali
The BBC has caved-in to government recommendations that it should outsource more of its online output to the commercial sector, while creati… Read more »
ISPs Dismiss BBC Worries Over Foreign Control of Broadband
By Rafat Ali
Foreign-owned ISPs–like AOL and MSN–have defended their position in the development of the UK broadband market after the BBC’s director of… Read more »
BBC Vocab/Geirfa
The BBC continues to experiment and innovate online. The latest twist — a dictionary program that translates words as the user moves the cu… Read more »
BBC’s Broadband Ambit
By Rafat Ali
I mentioned this speech by BBC director of new media and technology Ashley Highfield…this is the full text of the speech. Some high-faluti… Read more »
BBC Creative Archive: Pilot to Start in 2005
By Rafat Ali
Some more details of BBC’s Creative Archive in this story…a presentation by Paula Le Dieu, co-director of the Creative Archive, the projec… Read more »
Can BBC Online Do More With Less?
By Rafat Ali
An analysis of the upcoming cuts at BBC, including major ones at its online unit, and its effects…The way that things are going, it looks… Read more »
BBC Proposes Broadband Freeband
By Rafat Ali
Delivering the keynote speech at the Broadband Britain Summit, BBC director of new media and technology Ashley Highfield predicted a new era… Read more »
BBC Warns Of Rising Costs For Digital Distribution
By Rafat Ali
The BBC warned of escalating distribution costs as it rolled out programmes and services on internet, mobile and free-satellite platforms. M… Read more »
BBC.co.uk: Possible Job Cuts
By Rafat Ali
BBC bosses are considering shedding jobs at BBC News Online in an effort to cut costs…the online division could lose some of its 200 newsd… Read more »
BBC Launches VOD Trials
By Rafat Ali
In UK, BCC is conducting tests on a service allowing licence holders to download or store the BBC schedule on a weekly basis so they can cho… Read more »
The Lost Treasures of BBC
By Rafat Ali
I’ve written about this before: BBC’s ambitious project to put its archives online (the Creative Archives project) is now a sorry excuse for… Read more »
BBC Asking Channel 4, Others, To Join Online Archives
By Rafat Ali
Also in the same story (as below), BBC is actively pursuing this idea in talks with Channel 4, the British Film Institute and the British Li… Read more »
BBC Launches Open-Source Video Technology
By Rafat Ali
The BBC has announced its open-source video compression project Dirac, which it hopes may one day give Windows Media Player a run for its mo… Read more »
UK Regulator Wants New Competition To BBC
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In a rather remarkable move, UK’s media regulator Ofcom has suggested setting up a new public service broadcaster (PSB), with a budget of 30… Read more »
BBC News launches aggregation service
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BBC has jumped into the news aggregation game: well, sorta. It is linking to other stories on the Web..big step…well…
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